Italian: dolioEnglish translation: dolium (large storage jar) 
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Art/Literary - Archaeology | | Italian term or phrase: dolio | as in "Euristeo in un dolio...."
just what everyone wanted for Xmas! |
| | Clarification request(s) and responsehirselina: 2:17pm Apr 4, 2006: Can't you provide more context? -
Angela Arnone: 2:35pm Apr 4, 2006: I got one for my husband for Valentine's Day but he refuses to get in it ... -
snatalieg (asker): 2:35pm Apr 4, 2006: hirselina - it's jut a list of archeological items That one in particular said:
anfora a figure nere: euristeo in un dolio.
snatalieg (asker): 2:36pm Apr 4, 2006: angela - that's because he didn't know it also had Atena con scudo attached!
Angela Arnone: 2:40pm Apr 4, 2006: Uhm, that might explain it... Baci Perugina next year -
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| | dolium (large jar or urn) | Explanation:
LacusCurtius — The Hercules Mosaic at VolubilisKing Eurystheus ordered him to capture the Minoan bull and bring it back to him ... and the king cowering in what looks like a large storage jar or dolium. ...
penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/ Places/Africa/Morocco/Volubilis/mosaics/Hercules_Mosaic.html |
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| Note from asker to answerergadnabit! my resource materials are certainly lacking!
Grazie Angela!
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| dolium (large jar or urn)
Explanation:
LacusCurtius — The Hercules Mosaic at VolubilisKing Eurystheus ordered him to capture the Minoan bull and bring it back to him ... and the king cowering in what looks like a large storage jar or dolium. ...
penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/ Places/Africa/Morocco/Volubilis/mosaics/Hercules_Mosaic.html
| | Note from asker to answerergadnabit! my resource materials are certainly lacking!
Grazie Angela! |
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